Pelvic Floor Clinic

The Role of the Pelvic Floor

The Pelvic Floor (See Fig A) is a unique broad sling of muscle which attaches from your coccyx bone at the base of your spine to your pubic bone at the front of your pelvis. Three outlets pass through the muscle; the rectum, the vagina and the urethra. There are only two outlets (the rectum and urethra) in a man. This muscle is not only unique in terms of its structure but because of its multi-functional role which is to:

Maintain continence (by keeping the bladder and bowel outlets closed)

Allow voiding of urine/faeces (by allowing the bladder and bowel outlets to relax and open)

Support the pelvic organs from dropping (bladder, rectum, vagina and uterus)